Looking for suggestions for 2018 donations

Hi all. As you may know, for the past seven years we've been making annual donations in support of charitable and non-profit projects[1]. We plan to do the same in 2018, with a focus on -- you can probably guess -- online privacy, namely projects that enable us to directly be more private online, or indirectly help defend our rights to online privacy.

Like last year, we plan to donate to a lot of organizations, and so could use help identifying organizations we haven’t donated to in the past. Feel free to suggest them in the comments below, and thank you in advance!

OpenVPN Connect is based on OpenVPN 3.0, and is a completely different fork due to licensing issues with Apple. It actually isn't a technical issue, but an issue with how Apple's app store policies handle the license that OpenVPN 2.x uses.

European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an international advocacy group headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. EDRi was founded in June 2002 in Berlin by ten NGOs from seven countries. In March 2015, the European Council adopted a proposal that may compromise net neutrality, a major concern of EDRi.

Monero is definitely a really good one. It's a huge team and they are working on innovations that actually move the cryptocurrency industry forward. RingCT is huge for privacy and ASIC resistance is huge for keeping the network distributed rather than centralized. Integration into I2P will also be great for further enhancing privacy.

Sorry if I misunderstand, but didn't you donate to those organizations because of efforts you and we deem worthy of support? If so, isn't it more appropriate (or even crucial) to continue supporting them through donations? Or do you do that and still donate to new organizations?

Hi. Good point. Yes, the privacy theme is similar to recent years and so those organisations that we donated to are all on our list of potential candidates for more donations. This year we're likely to have a greater number of recipients, however, so we're asking for further suggestions. Plus we just like involving the community and hearing ideas :-)

Thank you for all the suggestions everyone! We have to be selective about which we can choose but appreciate having such a wide-ranging list to consider, together with organisations we've donated to in the past. I'm going to close this discussion now, and am looking forward to what we can do in early 2018...

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